Posted on Mon 20 February 2006 in misc • Tagged with Personal
Last weekend I was assigned the task of priming and painting our bedrooms. The previous owners had decided to use bold, garish colours, which meant that I was doomed to prime and reprime before I would even have the chance of adding some of our own "style" to the house …
Posted on Tue 14 February 2006 in misc • Tagged with Personal
It's 6:15 am on a Tuesday morning. I am sleep deprived and half hung-over from the paint fumes I have filtered through my lungs in preparing the baby's room this weekend. Despite this, I'm anxiously awaiting your arrival at the bus station. It has been days …
Posted on Sun 12 February 2006 in misc • Tagged with Personal
Hmm... for a good break from my drivel about poker and databases (and, somewhere in the distance, my coffee -- oh my coffee!), try Distant Ramblings. For one thing, the writer is talented. For another, she lives in an extremely interesting place in an extremely interesting time: try Israel, now. She's …
Poor Steph -- the author of the Zend Weekly Summaries of the action on the php-internals mailing lists hardly ever hears praise for her efforts, but suffers a barrage of weeklies! cries on IRC if she happens to be a few weeks behind. Suffice to say that her weeklies don' t …
Posted on Wed 04 January 2006 in misc • Tagged with Personal
I use Serendipity for my blog software. Other Serendipity users will note that I'm pretty much using the default template for the site. Boring! For the most part, that's because I'm more focused on generating content (slim pickings though they may be) versus putting time into design. Substance versus style …
Posted on Thu 22 December 2005 in misc • Tagged with Personal
As a means of conveying information, podcasts suck.
Harry Fuecks made some interesting observations on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern of application development as it applies to Web applications in a very long post called MVC and web apps: oil and water:
What I'm really trying to say here is I think the desire for MVC on the server …
A few years ago I had a Neuros 20GB audio player. It met my two primary requirements: Linux-friendly and capable of playing OGG Vorbis files. I have ripped most of my CD collection to Vorbis format, and the files all sit on Linux at home because that's what …
Until very recently, the entire set of PDO documentation, including the docs for seven different database drivers, was contained within the PDO documentation. While this was fine in the early days of PDO when there were only a handful of users, as PHP 5.1 starts entering the era of …
One quick highlight from OSCON: on Tuesday night, right after my tutorial, I was lucky enough to attend the Portland PHP User's Group, where they had arranged an all-star PHP line up, including Rasmus, Andrei, Wez, Marcus, Ilia, George, Laura, Adam, Ben, Luke, Shane, John, Stefan, Terry, and Chris-- well-documented …